Ishan Desai — Software Engineer

Where I've Built Cool Stuff

Leading tech companies and impactful projects

GTPL

Software Engineer

Oct 2024 - Dec 2024

Optimized search infrastructure and ETL pipelines for a major telecom provider serving millions of customers.

Cut search latency by 45% through Elasticsearch optimization and index restructuring
Achieved 99.9% pipeline reliability with robust error handling and retry mechanisms
Reduced deployment time from 2h to 15min by automating CI/CD with Jenkins
Boosted query performance 60% through strategic database indexing

Elasticsearch MySQL Jenkins Docker Redis

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

Built production microservices for Amazon's advertising platform serving millions of ad impressions daily.

Shipped RESTful microservice processing 100K+ requests/day with sub-100ms latency
Designed DynamoDB schemas for multi-tenant data isolation with optimized partition keys
Integrated AWS services (Lambda, SQS, CloudWatch) for event-driven architecture
Hit 95% test coverage following Amazon's rigorous testing standards

Java Spring Boot AWS Lambda DynamoDB SQS CloudWatch

Projects That Scale

Real-world systems handling serious traffic

Distributed Systems

EventStreamX

High-performance streaming ETL platform processing real-time events with exactly-once delivery semantics and automatic failover.

5K+

Events/Sec

99.95%

Uptime

<50ms

P95 Latency

Kafka consumer groups with custom partition assignment
AWS Kinesis integration with automatic checkpointing
Kubernetes deployment with horizontal autoscaling

Java Kafka AWS Kinesis Kubernetes

Real-Time

DevConnect

Real-time collaboration platform with CRDT-based synchronization enabling conflict-free coding.

300+

Users

<100ms

Sync

CRDT text synchronization
WebSocket + Redis pub/sub
GraphQL API with DataLoader

Next.js GraphQL WebSocket Redis

DevOps

GitOps Pipeline

Automated deployment pipeline managing 20+ microservices across environments with zero downtime.

20+

Services

15min

Deploy

ArgoCD GitOps setup
Helm charts + templating
Prometheus + Grafana

Kubernetes ArgoCD Helm

Tech I Love

Tools I use to build great products

Java • Python • JavaScript • TypeScript • Go • AWS • Kubernetes • Java • Python • JavaScript • TypeScript • Go • AWS • Kubernetes •

💻 Languages

Java Python JavaScript TypeScript Go SQL

☁️ Cloud & DevOps

AWS Kubernetes Docker ArgoCD Jenkins Terraform

🗄️ Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL Redis Elasticsearch Kafka DynamoDB

🏅 Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect Kubernetes Admin (CKA)

Ishan R Desai